{"id":2352,"date":"2023-11-16T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/2026-wcq-super-eagles-will-cope-without-osimhen-chukwueze\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T06:00:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T06:00:32","slug":"2026-wcq-super-eagles-will-cope-without-osimhen-chukwueze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/2026-wcq-super-eagles-will-cope-without-osimhen-chukwueze\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 WCQ: Super Eagles will cope without Osimhen, Chukwueze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Super Eagles head coach, Jose Peseiro, has expressed his lack of concern over the absence of some key players for the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Talismanic forward, Victor Osimhen, Samuel Chukwueze, and Zaidu Sanusi were excluded from the squad for the qualifiers due to fitness concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen and Chukwueze sustained hamstring injuries in Nigeria\u2019s friendly against Saudi Arabia last month.<\/p>\n<p>Sanusi recently returned to action for the Portuguese club, FC Porto, after spending around six weeks on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Peseiro stated that he has enough quality at his disposal to cope with the trio\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo Osimhen, Samuel Chukwueze, Zaidu, and others are not fit, but I am only speaking about them because you asked me. It\u2019s better I think about the 23 players, come with more confidence; I don\u2019t care about the others, only I said recover well, for that I call them,\u201d Peseiro told a press conference in Uyo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of them I call all the time, not only Osimhen. I call them, you work well, good job, but after that when we start the camping, our team is this team, no other team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles will host the Likuena of Lesotho at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>2026 WCQ: Super Eagles will cope without Osimhen, Chukwueze<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles head coach, Jose Peseiro, has expressed his lack of concern over the absence of some key players for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4248,15,1557,160,869],"tags":[575,873,180,1560,201,870],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chukwueze","category-news","category-osimhen","category-sport","category-super-eagles","tag-chukwueze","tag-eagles","tag-news","tag-osimhen","tag-sport","tag-super"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}